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Computer Science jobs for University Students

I’m often asked about available jobs for Computer Science students. More so in light of the recent economic downturn. An interesting point to reflect against is a benchmark from 2007 when “950 Computer Science related jobs” were advertised to the University of Waterloo students. This Fall’s 782 seems lower than pre-economic-meltdown numbers, but a lot of large corporations now group multiple positions into single postings. RIM alone has 100+ student positions advertised over just 3 posts. So it’s difficult to compare those numbers accurately.

A new trend I’m observing, since 2 years ago, is that there is a substantial increase of job postings from much smaller start-up companies, as well as not-so-small ex-startups (Facebook in particular had a few different positions advertised).

Economic hardship breeds innovation. It puts large corporations into a compromised position, and that opens up an opportunity for small, agile, smart, inexpensive, but super-productive startups to come into play and compete with established corporations. Unconvinced? Today Startuply is listing “1375 jobs from 1293 startups”, and I’ve noticed some of them cross-listed on Waterloo’s job website, specifically looking for students. Quality software always needs to be build, and Computer Science students who do their craft well are “pretty much guaranteed an interesting job, that actually does something useful to society”.

Looking forward to it! I’ve been idling on Startuply for a while; sometimes it’s simply interesting to see what’s going on in the startup field. I’m really glad to see that a couple of Canadian postings have made it in; so I wanted to share a resource that I like. Keep up the good work!

You have a pretty sweet design site. I can tell you that finding someone with a good sense of design and who can also write code is rare. I suppose it’s more applicable for startups where one would get a chance to do both, but you’d be that awesome 2-for-1 employee.

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